A mistake! the Vendee was pacificated, but the Abbe Bernier had not signed the peace; the Vendee was dead, but the Abbe Bernier was still alive.

One day the Vendee was ungrateful to him.
He wished to be appointed general agent to the royalist armies of the interior; Stofflet influenced the decision and got his old master, Comte Colbert de Maulevrier, appointed in Bernier's stead.

When, at two o'clock in the morning, the council broke up, the Abbe Bernier had disappeared.

What he did that night, God and he alone can tell; but at four o'clock in the morning a Republican detachment surrounded the farmhouse where Stofflet was sleeping, disarmed and defenceless.

At half-past four Stofflet was captured; eight days later he was executed at Angers.